I have 12 cats and only one of them have been declawed, and the only reason that was done is because she has a skin condition and she scratches herself to the point of bleeding..... she is normal in every way, still catches mice better than any cat I own and goes outside where everything in the vacinity is terrified of her and so on........ lol
But none of the others are or will be. I don't like it and I think it is cruel, and the only way I'd ever do it again is if they were a danger to themselves. I wouldn't want someone to come and pull my fingernails out and I don't intend to do it to my cats.
We just make sure they have plenty of scratching posts and so on, and they don't attack my furniture.
